Christmas Time Capsule

The premise is a variation on the romantic leads are best friends from childhood. But now he is about to propose to his girlfriend and Tiffany is trying to stall him. One thing that is slightly unusual is that the rival, the pending fiancé, is totally likable. The movie gives you nothing in her character to dislike. That's the one exception to everything being wrong. The surprise that comes out of the time capsule is stupid and makes no sense. Other than that surprise, the movie follows the usual lines and has no great highs or lows or other surprises.

Mom is just stupid. I cringed at her appearances until late in the movie. It's a Christmas movie, so there is baking, but mom bakes cookies without sugar, on purpose.

Except for Emily Alatalo, the acting is bad. I found nothing appealing about Franco Lo Presti's James and certainly no chemistry. James was negative for so far into the movie that I couldn't understand why Tiffany was friends with him, much less thought she loved him.

I just couldn't get into this bore fest. There were way too many long drawn out scenes of nothing. One scene lasted around 20 minutes of them just sitting in a car moaning at each other, and another scene going to an ALIEN convention at Christmas.(whah!!!!) The male lead was another one of those model type actors, where it's all just about the eye candy, zero acting ability, and the female lead just constantly grinned all the way through the movie like it was her only expression. I know Christmas movies don't always have the best talent, but this is way outside the barrel.

To top it off there was that overused silly tinkerbell music playing in the background, that is meant to give you comedy effect, but instead just annoys you. Both leads were acting away from each other, rather than towards each other, so it felt there was no love story or chemistry development. This is not one for a cosy night in, let alone a freezing night outside.

Well, where do I start... I couldn't finish watching, sorry. This movie is an insult to one's intelligence. Both the script and acting are so poor that I don't feel bad anymore about AI taking over the movie industry: ChatGPT and synthetic performers would do a better job.

The lead actor's performance is particularly weak. Someone has to tell the guy that acting requires skills and talent (both missing here), and it's not just about memorizing text and repeating it in front of the camera. His narcissistic demeanor doesn't help either.

The lead actress did a better job. It looks like she is a seasoned Christmas show dame. The actress must be in her early forties now and it shows, so maybe it's time to switch to a more appropriate genre. Anyway, some time wasted, and I'm switching to Christmas classics to heal the trauma:)))

P. S. The leads are a couple in real life: they hooked up on some other low-budget movie set and they use their real-life "love story" to promote this masterpiece :))) Cheesy stuff.

7.6 stars.

Yet another movie with reviews all over the place, and so I had to see it for myself, see what's the deal. There aren't many comments, but for me, I have to comment on this because that's what I do these days, I do reviews on everything I watch. Why not, figure might as well do something with all this time on my hands watching primarily family and Hallmark films for two full months of the year, that's the tradition, starting in 2022, and boy there is an endless supply of these movies...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie. I like it, almost love it at times. The leads have great chemistry, what are people talking about? Sure, they're married, so what, that's not an automatic chemistry killer, they have it, the love is there...

The story is nothing new, but they do draw it out and it's sort of slow at times, but it's a really slow burn sort of best friends, always been in love story and it works. I can feel the raw emotions between them, she is absolutely adorable, he's got charm. What's not to like? But so many people just don't enjoy this movie, so maybe I'm on coolaid, who knows.

This movie follows James and Tiffany, best pals from their childhood days in the Midwest. James asks Tiffany for an engagement ring he gave her for safekeeping before he enlisted. He's got plans to propose to someone else, but their trip back home stirs up old emotions.

During their journey, they rediscover their connection. Some folks thought the actors didn't click, but I found their bond quite genuine.

I won't spill the beans on all the surprises, but trust me, this movie keeps you hooked. Some people had mixed reviews, but if you're up for a cozy, feel-good Christmas film about friendship and true love, this one hits the spot!